Located in Cairo's Mokattam Mountain the Cave Church of St. Simon is the largest in the Middle East.
It’s not just a building; it’s a massive engineering feat carved directly into the limestone Imagine the acoustics and the sheer scale of removing thousands of tons of rock to create this 25,000-seat amphitheater.
Is this a modern echo of ancient rock-cutting technology
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If you think these ancient jars are impressive, check out my next post about a 25,000-seat cathedral carved directly into a mountain. The scale of ancient rock-cutting is beyond our modern imagination
Clearly not impossible if it exists!
It’s wild to think how much planning went into something like this, not just carving the space, but making sure visibility and acoustics work for thousands of people.
Damn that looks just like red rocks..
Plato’s cave in real life